Cernos Prime

Orokin

Weapons

Prime

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Cernos Prime

Tradable
(parts and/or blueprint only)

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General Information

Max Rank

30

Utility

Projectile Type

Projectile

Uncharged Horizontal/Vertical Shot

82.8
( 90%)

4.6
( 5%)

Ammo Cost

1

Projectile Type

Projectile

Charged Horizontal/Vertical Shot

165.6
( 90%)

9.2
( 5%)

Ammo Cost

1

Projectile Type

Projectile

Miscellaneous

Default Upgrades

Introduced

Hotfix 19.0.7 (2016-11-22)

Sell Price

7,500

Variants

Vendor Sources

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CODEX

A noble bow to hunt hellish beasts.

The Cernos Prime is the Prime variant of the Cernos. Aside from increased damage, the Cernos Prime is unique in that it fires three arrows per shot in a horizontal spread, and has an Alternate Fire mode that shoots vertically, and deals bonus damage on headshots.

On September 11th, 2018, it was announced that Cernos Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on September 25th, 2018. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.

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Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.

Advantages:

Third highest base damage of all bows, behind Daikyu and Lenz.
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against shields.
Shoots 3 arrows.
- Alternate Fire can toggle a horizontal or vertical spread shot.
Very high critical chance.
Very high status chance.
- Can reach 100% status chance with Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, and Malignant Force, making every arrow proc.
Deals 50% bonus damage on headshots.
Charged shots have innate 1 meter Punch Through.
Pinpoint accuracy when aiming (RMB ).
Silent.
On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging enemies in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
Innate two Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. polarities.
Can use the bow-exclusive Thunderbolt mod.
Fire rate mods apply double their bonuses.

Disadvantages:

Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against armor and health.
Damage and status chance is split between each of its three arrows, requiring simultaneous hits to maximize damage and status procs, exacerbated by the large spread.
- Projectiles generated by multishot will deal the same damage as normal projectiles; adding multishot will not decrease the damage per arrow.
- Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one arrow will proc a status; the actual base status chance per arrow is ~11.21%.
Arrows have travel time with slight arcing.
Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.

Comparisons:

Cernos Prime (Charged Horizontal/Vertical Shot), compared to Cernos (Charged Shot):
- Lower base damage per projectile (184.00 vs. 380.00)
  - Lower Impact damage ( 165.6 vs. 342)
  - Lower Puncture damage ( 9.2 vs. 19)
  - Lower Slash damage ( 9.2 vs. 19)
- Higher total damage (552 vs. 380)
- Lower base critical chance (35.00% vs. 36.00%)
- Higher base status chance (30.00% vs. 18.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (745.2 vs. 516.8)
- Higher burst DPS (1146.46 vs. 861.33)
- Higher sustained DPS (648 vs. 469.81)
- Higher multishot (3 vs. 1)
- Slower reload time (0.65 s vs. 0.60 s)
- Greater projectile speed (95.0 m/s vs. 90.0 m/s)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 6)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))

Cernos Prime (Charged Horizontal/Vertical Shot), compared to Rakta Cernos (Charged Shot):
- Lower base damage per projectile (184.00 vs. 470.00)
  - Lower Impact damage ( 165.6 vs. 423)
  - Lower Puncture damage ( 9.2 vs. 23.5)
  - Lower Slash damage ( 9.2 vs. 23.5)
- Higher total damage (552 vs. 470)
- Higher base status chance (30.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (745.2 vs. 634.5)
- Higher burst DPS (1146.46 vs. 1057.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (648 vs. 746.47)
- Higher multishot (3 vs. 1)
- Slower reload time (0.65 s vs. 0.60 s)
- Lesser projectile speed (95.0 m/s vs. 100.0 m/s)
- Less polarities ( vs. )
- No innate Blight effect

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Notes

The Cernos Prime's shots fire multiple arrows in a fanning spread. The number of arrows is affected by multishot mods, similar to shotguns.
Alternate Fire toggles a Horizontal Spread or Vertical Spread fire.
Heavy Caliber will decrease accuracy by a small amount, making each arrow fire slightly off from its normal trajectory.
- As of Hotfix 19.11.2 (2017-02-17) this was increased dramatically, making the weapon act more like a wildly-spreading shotgun than a fan of arrows.
- The arrows seem to be spread in a formation where some arrows are lower than the others, rather than being wider spread than others, this might make it difficult to get headshots with multiple arrows.

Tips

Cernos Prime is capable of orange crits with Point Strike and Argon Scope averaging approximately 1015 orange crit damage with a single arrow.
The horizontal arrow spread is effective against groups of enemies, while the vertical spread is effective against a single target.
While capable of reaching 100% status (before multishot) making every arrow proc, often the Cernos Prime's power comes with modding for Hunter Munitions, which is not affected by status chance. Building for Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. with Malignant Force and Rime Rounds is sufficient for the arrows to proc Viral often enough to half enemies health for the Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. procs brought on by Hunter Munitions to finish them off.